Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper

Raleway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and deployment and is particularly known for having a developer friendly interface. Jake Cooper is the founder and CEO at Railway. He joins the show to talk about the company and its platform. This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer. Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him. Jake, welcome to the show. Great to be here. You know, I'm super excited to chat about a bunch of stuff. I know we've got a couple of things on the docket. So yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. We were chatting before we hit the chord here, but you and I both graduated from the University of Victoria in British Columbia in Canada. So what ended up sort of pulling you south to the Bay Area? Yeah. I think there's almost like this brain drain kind of pull that I think we're both talking about it right before. And I think, like, half of maybe my graduating class was just kind of like, yeah, I wanna generally kind of move down there in general. So I think I kind of always knew that I wanted to be in The US. I think I always knew that I wanted to start a company at some point. So it was a more of a matter of, like, when, not if, if that makes sense. And so I ended up moving to a few different places before I ended up working out a bit out of, like, Amsterdam and Italy in between grad and then moved on to New York and then moved to San Francisco. But, yeah, I think it's a pretty no brainer in my mind because you pay the same amount of tax dollars and you get, you know, twice x the ambition plus twice x the sun. You know? So there's a pretty strong payoff on doing that. You know? Yeah. As much as I love Canada, I think if you're in tech, there is such a strong pull to the Bay Area, especially when I moved here, you know, now, like, fifteen years ago. I think we will get into it today, but you're running a fully remote company. So I think there's somewhat less constraints on companies and the opportunities people have in tech today all over the world, but that wasn't always the case. But, you know, back to, you know, what you're doing now around Railway, like, what was sort of the driving factor behind the creation of it? Is a platform focused on streamlining deployment and management of infrastructure and dependencies? Yeah. So, I mean, I grew up, like, hacking on random stuff. I started actually writing, like, in my first computer science stuff was writing kind of aim bots and cheats for, like, video games. And so it was always, like, a very kind …